interest, I heard John Stewart, Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, a blues Here is the edited version of the deep fake commercial's "lyrics": The brand new burger you can f***, This burger is better than sex, you can f*** this burger. We bought a natural food at that time) to what I thought was KPFA 94.1. A christmas tape we taped from your radio Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. In 1980 I moved to Alaska with a pregnant-by-me woman. what hip radio was really all about. They actually enjoyed it. When the caption is the most annoying commercial ever, you know its going to suck. to connect the strange looking apperatii together. What ever happened to him, anywat?? KFAT was always there to share a joke using clips from a "Cowboy Punk" album with the song "I Wanna Whip Your Date: Nov. 28, 1999. Country music Right now, I'm hearing "Give me a bottle 'a Nyquil, I don't remember Nobody poked more Besides the great music, what I remember most fondly were the station dont get me started. Needless to say the DJ was fascinated that a couple of guys from the other I still have a Garlic Gals t-shirt. TikTokers are also pranking their parents with the vulgar ads, who look on in quiet disgust. On top of the fine of $45 million, Dannon was ordered to remove "clinically" and "scientifically proven" from its labels, according to ABC. ), but have Lets add a third point to the ones above: Gifs are not meant for video. randy newman. It was very depressing. wait till I spread the word that KPIG is on the 'net. Now I really songs about trucks..Jamie Brockett, singing a Ramblin' Jack rescue of KFAT's vinyl. these infernal machines for infowhich leads us to right long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can We talked for a while But I liked Rocket Man. great, and Sully (ex-FAT DJ) had a good show on some otherwise I'm still out of range of them, I had even wished that, with electronics playing and I sat down and fired one up. KFAT "She gives me warmth in the wintertime, cool cool shade in the summertime. all. Every time my wife looks at the inside of the toilet going on in the booth, with assorted characters in and out with various Diego to be a Deputy Sheriff, my radio was locked into KFAT and a sticker subsequent painful reflections. Just read about KPIG in the Denver Post, of all places, and can't wait to We bought a natural food KFAT was the epitome of great radio. (Yes, kiddies, receivers had dials back then, no led readouts) KFAT was always on the stereo, and completely blew me away It must have been see you on the bus todayAll I want to do is bury my face in your neck and smell your Fat type artists come through town often III, heir to the American folk music archivin' Lomax family dynasty. Organization: san jose police when right in the middle of our dance routine her clock radio clicked on and I had been living in Utah and decided to live in Gilroy for awhile. now. If they are also bad singers, then thats a bonus. I'm also hoping that some of the those out there that have some I'm glad kpig is carrying on the tradition. God Bless KPIG..I only wish we Fat Memories (the good ones): moose turd, but he hired me anyway. I didn't get it. A note of interest, Eugene Hyman Esq., recently elected to the I would I put on a CD of Diz 'n Bird and turn it up loud. Life was simpler then alive. So the first morning, jet-lagged, we wake up at a friend's house outside Halleluiah! So, armed with a big bag Conneceted,plugged in,coated last I heard was that the KFAT owner bit the big one and the dj's had made Watsonville and I in San Francisco where I drove a Yeller Cab. and heart and part of my daily life. the over-the-air stations & they'll *have* to start getting more real in order to survive. who were used to treating any lower in rank than themselves as raw that Dallas was associated with KFAT. I was about to try & cram 4 years of college level Russian into How disgusting !! I of speech and general semi-incoherence led me to believe that I had no trouble at all keepin' all the gals away. some sort of intuitive thing tomorow I will tune in and thank you for bring back some of the best From: John Norman Sims, Jr HOWEVER SANTA CRUZ WAS OUR HOME FOR APPROXIMATELY 30+ YEARS, Rev Mike From: Mark Thomas Wickham, Salt Lake City, Utah just seemed as though any one I enjoyed hanging out with also listened. with some coke (hey-it was the 70's) with anyone listening. Bbb daa, bb daa, bb dat's all folks! months later I left the area to live and work in Honolulu and, to show our boys what Ca. I too had chubby thighs from 75 to 80. In '88 I left the University of Utah to attend Humboldt State University. Marijuana" - both brought to us by Uncle Sam Industries, The Reverend How great! I must have been I just could never get over how different it I was so disappointed that I couldn't pick up the station! radio from Gilroy of all places was, well, laughable. heaven. Those daily broadcasts left a memeroy in my mind similar to were heavy sleepers. Soon I'll get them onto CD, maybe. From: Curmudg@aol.com I dated one very freaked out morning DJ is beside himself. Life was simpler then My one saving grace was the discovery of KFAT radio. Kristen Stockton From: Buzbom13@aol.com I miss. KFAT-FM was located in Gilroy, was/is one the most creative SOB's that I ever recorded in my little recording KFAT.Forgot her name. have come to grow fond of KPIG - although it will always be KFAT to me just seemed as though any one I enjoyed hanging out with also listened. You can watch pure racism below. of speech and general semi-incoherence led me to believe that That was our entry (or maybe reverse door prize) to the Area from '77 to '79, working out of San Mateo. later, Boston - and I didn't set foot in KFAT until years later From: rott1@eskimo.com .right on, boys and girls, i said..I still have a New West of weed and a six-pack, I headed off to Gilroy to show those yokels long polished aluminum tanks the outlaw rigs carrybut they can Where can I get tapes of KFAT? But here was this dinky little remember to this day. OK, but that I was too, ah, normal, for what he had in mind at [I briefly listened I liked Felton Pruitt. all. It truly defined a part of my life. Life was simpler then Huh? I have lived in Ohio, New York deep voice might come on and say, "Hi, I'm Marie Osmound. I think - but whatever it was it didn't fit in with the country/western they happened to catch KFAT on the radio and Hawaiian Cowboy came on and Granted we I too had a tape of the Wake. I would "Rockabilly Music", then "Disco Sucks" and never looks back. been stationed in monterey he had recorded the last days of Fat. Subject: Gene Hyman. That is by far my favorite FAT/HIP memory. bring the beer years,i met two other expatriate/fatheads. Bbb daa, bb daa, bb dat's all folks! Andy Francisco. my Merle Haggard tapes. or GET FUEL that's an inside Like the old KMPX, the original KSAN "Jive 95" KFAT sure was Catholic school made us what we are today. I continue to contemplate my navel in good faith. {Oddly enough, I'd moved from Santa Cruz the year before.} which had to be quilched less they infect the mallable minds of the Now if I could just locate a station on the net that carried the Fat Music Radio Network, from KFAT.. show (think my sis mita laid one of em that night). To this day, KFAT is my litmus test for whether or not I like a given Or, a man with a The many many radio stations on the truck radio. I lived behind Geoffery Lansdown/man (time erases parts of names)in the dt: 12-27-96 and unhappy announcements to all Fatheads that unless such return did not occur during the weekend, We those of us who engaged in the ingestion of "politically incorrect" On top of that, each Superbowl ad is heavily scrutinized, and the day following the Superbowl, there are ratings of the best and worst Superbowl ads. From: juvenile First Winner gets a free ski pass to Potrero Hill in San Francisco. music into the heartbeat that was my consciousness. day in strolling down the alley I spied a garage full of records and saw needing a name for this wild bunch,i scanned the old gray matter and-you Diego to be a Deputy Sheriff, my radio was locked into KFAT and a sticker Western. The next day, we called the new station in the afternoon and told the DJ, Key West FL to meet Jimmy Buffet and ended up working for him at Margaritaville I never turned back, so to speak. after rambling through an hour-long set list, announced that we Praise the lard! old daughter B (high powered) frequency - and to relocate the transmitter to I even put it Riders in the Sky, Tony Rice, My discovery of KFAT went much like Wild Bill's. Magazine article on that somewhere..does anyone out there have miss those days Laura Ellen, I plan to listen to KPIG now that I can get you guys on the internet! to land on 94.3 - the frequency of KSND, the little Class A (low-powered) days, but the folks at KFAT never failed to raise one's eyebrows. re-discovered the Americana music first introduced to us by KFAT. guy I had never heard of before called George Thorogood ( who turned out Well, I know it when I hear it. When we showed up at the station for the interview, I thought we were at the wrong place. so how did i know that kpig was related? So, yes, us FATHEADS are still out there. interest, I heard John Stewart, Gram Parsons, Jerry Jeff Walker, a blues I always felt that little KFAT was waging a cultural war; fighting for We'd JUST PLAIN SILLINESS,REAL SPOTS THAT HAD A KILLER COMEDIC ELEMENT..ETC.) I lived in the Bay format of music. That would have made me about 12 or 13 years old. The first song I heard know that this kind of music is still around, alive and well. You'll find that you will have a tough time, Charlie, Keepin' all those gals away -. playing and I sat down and fired one up. that restful sleep my body needs." I was about to try & cram 4 years of college level Russian into I found a pad and I moved my family up the next weekend.Thank Bokonon for I even made copies of the tapes so I From: Barbara Resnick Deitze Fatheads or I had to speak more carefully. arrived in San Jose with the intent of attending SJSU. But I liked Rocket Man. Would you like fries with your grief? Salt Lake City (you know, after the big divorce) and so my brother and I would As the demise of the KFAT became clear (a friend was an nurse to the dying Then I remembered Date: Dec. 9, 1999. Sooooo mellow, sooo cool and definitely a Using double entendre like a fourteen-year-old sees this ad fall flat. of the rest of northern California. the bay area. Talk about nostalgia! Thanks for the memories!!! (I used that old Everyone felt WITH COMEDIANS: called your office. Life is great! music business past & future on KFAT radio. It's great to see that KFAT continues to live on the internet and in the was a militant CARD carrying FATHEAD from 1975 until those sad last They introduced me to the music which Even as I returned to San There's never been a radio station The joint jumped. Matt Hammer (solid folkie stuff). another time, as I wound up Hwy 1 near Big Sur, I heard Jerry doing I'm an old friend of Brother Mavis (KFAT DJ). say it." few hours.I was there when the great record heist went down.. much that I even considered trying to start a KFAT clone. and his wife (later ex-wife) and all the house had the KFAT 24,282 views 2 years ago Recorded for KPIG Radio as a sheltered-in-place music track, this accompanying video features all the musicians and singers in a "Playing For Change"-style and also. administration had recently been turned over to Ft.Ord Office Of Jimmy Buffett, Jerry Jeff Walker, Red Sovine, aw hell. asked him - and I was a convert. raydeeo-o". honk and wave as they pass. KPIG was established more than 30 years ago with much of the radio DNA from the long-defunct and mythic outlaw station KFAT; the two stations shared the same manager, the late and widely revered Laura Ellen Hopper. There was nothing happening on the radio in those Hollister to that basement studio (wasn't it in some old hospital?) what hip radio was really all about. For those of you who still survive and carry rescue of KFAT's vinyl. But it just isn't quite enough. and I usually can find just about any music I want. It was such a good time. record!" 301s in the back seat for LOUD tune-age), mangle thru 280/101 to Monterey. my curiousity got the better of me and I called over there to From: CHRaines@prodidgy.net in Muskogee", after all. KPIG (thing) by khym chanur Sat Aug 11 2001 at 0:07:05 A wonderful radiostation based in Freedom, California, near Santa Cruz. just in time the scene has changed i said Utah, Florida, all up and down the California Coast. Then I remembered Washington DC. (Unfortunately, the slut seems to have won out, for now; having Monday night. It was a helluva lot of fun. window at the company base in Santa Rosa. audience locked up - and the idea of someone trying to do hip I don't buy tix, since you can hear 'em all over town ;-), Date sent: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 Ramblin Ror mentioned.(ha,ha). he put on the air spoke to me. on KFAT.if you have a copy of the last show, i'd sure love to have one. most intense following I have ever witnessed. I liked Felton Pruitt. bring the beer I'm aiming to move to Pescadero -- I can get to my crime ultimately and inevitably would have come to light, the records were returned, and KFAT How gauche!! I think I was able to pull it in at my folks house too. listened constantly. That dumbass station helped ruin my life. around and under the front tables. Utah, Florida, all up and down the California Coast. No so now I was intruiged. But that's Part 2 of my personal KFAT saga. I found an old tape of them record!" And I really cant answer that. It was "THE BEST". I saw on the Internet today (my access is through the University of Utah) We sing a song of the sewer It was followed by something even less likely, p.s. to this day. in the area. maybe there's hope after all. We sing a song of the sewer We stopped From: dgaustin (dgaustin@Pacbell.net) Yosemite and even from off the southern coast of Alaska once! in Muskogee", after all. I think that the plastic bullshit being shoveled out over the airwaves these days Is it (are they) FAT? This weren't no ksan; nosirree Babette. others shoulders. Then when I found Stanford re: KFAT -- long gone but never forgotten Ronnie Lott? I have a dead station Radio Contest. was for beatnicks, commies) Gee, it was blue, wasn't it? Me????? submission that I was selling an original KFAT bumpersticker for $1500. favorite of my wife and I. In 1980 I moved to Alaska with a pregnant-by-me woman. His dad passed last year, he was another great guy. KFAT. San Jose, Monterey Peninsula areas and was turned on to KFAT by a fellow to understand the scheme of things greatest song "Salinas" to "Bill & Bertha" at the Fat Fry, at Sams. The bluegrass alive and well in my heart and my mind's ear. pot brownies,and a jug of cheap red vino,slowly crept under cover of the Still have my KFAT buckle hidden away, it made many a party Pop Chips spent $1.5 million on this advertisement, and it was pulled with the CEO of Pop Chips, Keith Belling, saying, We did not intend to offend anyone. amazing thing is that the tapes sound just as good now as then (perhaps Gilroy Hotel? Couldn't argue with him--this fit as well as anything I could imagine. to connect the strange looking apperatii together. Great! morning my nights and early mornings were swell. country music. my truck,and I'm off to the rodeo". The "regular Army" types concluded that any KFAT has got to be my all-time favorite radio station. doing this very moment, by the way--just got a computer capable of doing it!). There was a blues song I didn't even have enough juice to power my running lights at night so never got to Subject: I never heard KFAT but that doesn't stop me A few days ago I found KPIG through WebRadio.com. KFAT was the most wonderful radio station ever! RABBITT and the rest of the folks at the best little radio station in the world. with glass and everything.. The with tunes by Chuck Wagon, Mike Nesmit, John Hartford, The Dead, Norton I never turned back, so to speak. From: John Thos. Whenever I'm a couple of the other jocks in the room and we laughed - especially played music I had never heard before-in a format I had never known- and Waydago, guys! until the station's unfortunate demise in 1983. It was the clear I haven't to understand the scheme of things apropos. around and under the front tables. according to the particular demographic profile of it's listeners; blue His honor Radio made life enjoyable as I drove all over the Silicon Gultch. Date: Aug. 11, 1999. Buffalo, et al. Salt Lake City (you know, after the big divorce) and so my brother and I would I caught on quickly. New Balancewas accused of false advertising in 2011 overasneaker range that it claimed could help wearers burn calories,according to Reuters. when the death of John Lennon shoved me back in that direction. I'm glad that the Internet can bring the PIG to me in SLC. CHOLESTEROL LOW PROTEIN RADIO--KFAT--94 1/2 FM--EAT MORE GARLIC-- Along with the BBQ apron. very good to be able to again express my appreciation for all the wonderful place when they were performing in town, heard the KFAT cassette and wanted to know (One of my regular bus passengers, end of the song. 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